Balmer Clinton (41 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). Front cover done by Margaret Armstrong with her monogram on lower right of cover in Lavender, white flower, and gilt on lavender, vertically ribbed cloth; the trimmed head is gilt. Frontispiece in color by Clinton Balmer with tissue guard. Title page vignette printed in red and black; all text is framed in a black border with red chapter headings and margin heads. Minor rubbing to extremities, fore edge has some chipping, binding is tight other than separation between front and rear cover at end sheets, small amount of staining on some interior pages. Owners name on end sheet. See my 2 other Myrtle Reed books, make me an offer on all 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Clinton Balmer (illustrator). First Edition.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Clinton Balmer (pictures) (illustrator). First American Edition. near fine in softcover; this contains part one and part 2; each part 8 pages that fold out to 28 x 22" and can be laid flat on the table; interesting and scarce 2 part story; Size: 7 x 11".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Balmer, Clinton (illustrator). Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. However, front gutter is torn and care in handling required. Hardcover has green cloth boards with white lettering & designs, but no DJ. Spine is sunburnt.

Clinton Balmer (illustrator). First. VG- condition book, unmarked, in Good condition dustjacket, not price-clipped. [0602].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First American Edition. 8vo, 72 pages, clothbacked boards, bit of waterstaining on bottom edge; dj a bit chipped, reinforced outside by cellophane tape at the tips of the spine Hand-set type by A. W. Rushmore. in Morris Jensonian type, at his Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. Illustrated by Clinton Balmer.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). 1929, 72pp, illus., slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, a fwe small tears to dj, chipping to top dj spine, some soiling & slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The volume shows slight signs of bumping at spine, frayed edges at front crown, general shelfwear to (unclipped) dust jacket. Overall, though, it's been marvelously well-preserved with pages still bright, tight, and seemingly free from harm. See photos.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). First Edition. Brick orange cloth, gold lettering on cover and spine. Golden Hind Press, copy 223 of 300, signed by author and artist. A clean unmarked copy. Probably never read. The colophon is signed by A.W. Rushmore. Hand-set in Weiss antiqua type at the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey, printed on Glenbourne paper furnished by Quincy P. Emery and bound dby the Haddon craftsmen in Camden New Jersey. MCMXXXVI. Signed by Everybody.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Very Good. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). First Edition, Ex-Library. Very Good/Good-fair. First Edition, Ex-Library. Historical Fiction. nice color illustration, Athens 400-392 B. C. Historical Fiction.

hardcover. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). Limited. Drawings by Clinton Balmer. 11 pages. Short slim 4to, flexible orange cloth (front cover slightly warped). Madison N.J.: Golden Hind Press, 1936. Very good(+). One of only 300 numbered copies signed by the artist and author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). Slight dust jacket edgewear. Out of print. Scarce in jacket. Binding is cloth.

Condition: Near Fine. Two Plates (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Original wrappers. 32pp, wire-stapled. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. This book is in very good condition especially considering it's age. There are stains on the edges of the pages and the title page has a small tear at the bottom. It is a first edition. The book is a boy's story of the Tyrolese Alps in Austria. The boy, Charlie Loomis and his father, Professor Loomis, set out on an adventure in the Tyrolese Alps. They encounter mysteries and villains along the way. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, Printed at the Golden Hind Press, 1929. First edition, 1929. Very good in good dustjacket. A fantasy poem of courtly love, illustrated with line drawings and elaborate decorations. Gray hardcover with green cloth spine, with dustjacket. The book has edge rubbing an a very small chip from the lower edge of the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and has some uneven age-darkening and edgewear, but little paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Corners lightly bumped, some offsetting to front endpaper, otherwise about fine in very good plus dust jacket with darkened spine, a few short tears, edgewear, and minor stains/soiling, but no major tears or chips, and NOT price-clipped. Attractive woodcut illustrations and decorations.

Condition: Good. Elkin Mathews Vigo Street, London: At the Sign of the Unicorn VII Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane. MCMIV. Narrow quarto. Spine is bound in green-brown cloth with tipped-on paper backstrip label. Small black title and decoration on front board; Boards are bound in light green paper. Some discolouration and wear to book, mostly externally. Pages are untrimmed with some remaining connected at top-edge. Engraved illustrated plates throughout. Pages are generally clean internally.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). London: Elkin Matthews, 1904. First edition hardcover, paper over boards with paper pastedown title label on spine. Signed by Gordon Bottomley with personalized inscription on FFEP, dated 1937. Illustrated by Clinton Balmer. Volume overall in very good condition. Some wear to edges and corners. Some aging to endpapers. Internal text sound with relatively tight binding. Damage to the hard plastic cover surrounding the paper boards with a small tear to the plastic at the top of the spine and a large piece of plastic missing from the front interior flap. All eight plates present and in excellent shape. One of only 400 printed.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and slightly soiled. 290mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 68pp. Grey/green hardback board cover with grey/green cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED in full & briefly INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on ffep: "To Bache Matthews, with many kind regards from Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale, 27th January 1929". Also includes a lengthy 3-page HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER by the author to the same recipient as the inscription. The handwritten letter (in black ink), with author's printed letterhead (The Sheiling, Silverdale, Carnforth), contains details regarding the book, the theatre world, & their friendship. The ALS is dated 27 January 1929, & is tipped-in to the front pastedown. Includes all 8 plates printed in green, plus b&w frontispiece, as issued. Printed above the frontispiece is: "The First and Sole Publisher of this Book is Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, London, W. MCMIV". Decorated by Clinton Balmer. From copyright page: "The engraving & printing of the blocks, the typesetting, printing & binding are by William Holmes, Ltd, Ulverston." All text printed in capitals, in small font, with wide margins. With 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948), English Georgian poet & playwright, was influenced by the Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites & William Morris. Bottomley included many famous writers, poets & artists as friends who he mainly kept in contact with through letters. Aged seven, Bottomley contracted a tubercular illness that would affect him for the rest of his life. As a result he was invalided for long periods of time & was unable to travel widely or live in a town. He & his wife lived in Silverdale, near Carnforth from 1914 until their deaths. Bache Matthews, friend of Bottomley & recipient of the letter/inscription, wrote a book on the history of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which was published in 1924. Large format. Thin volume. Bound in publisher's original pale green boards with black lettering to front board, backed by pale green cloth spine with printed paper label. Wear to spine ends & edges, light sun-shading to boards, toning to endpapers, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 68pp. Uncommon title, scarce signed copy with tipped-in ALS. UNIQUE & RARE. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. G. W. Lambert; Clinton Balmer; Arthur Rackham etc (illustrator). The second issue of this scarce annual of art and literature, with work by James Joyce and Arthur Rackham. The second issue of this scarce annual. The first issue was published in 1903, with only two issues of this annual ever printed.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty-three plates in both colour and monochrome, some tipped in. Collated complete.This annual provides a collection of literary works by a host of noted authors alongside beautiful illustrations by various artists. This issue was particularly important as it contains the first appearance in book form of James Joyce's work 'Two Songs'. This annual also includes artwork by the noted Arthur Rackham. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally sound with fading, heaviest to the spine, marks to the boards, joints tender, loss to the spine, a closed tear to the tail of the spine and front joint with spine lifting to the tail, damp staining to the corners to the tails of the boards, a slight lean and bumping to the extremities of the boards. Front hinge starting with age toning to the endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound with strain in places. Pages lightly age toned with scattered spotting to the front and rear. Past owner's signature dated 1904 to the front blank. Good. book.